Performance Drawing / 4 colour Lithograph Editon 100

For Littoral Walk, I used aerial satellite images of Madagascar, and re-scaled, transplanted and walked the outline of the coastline, onto Clapham Common in South London.

I used guidelines for visual orientations and sightlines (red lines) to help me pin point my position and location on Clapham Common by looking at the landscape.

The existing paths on the common are marked in yellow, and the white lines are the coastline itself. The black dots are 20 points along the coastline which formed the basis of marking the coastline using Longitude and Latitude coordinates and a global positioning system.

The print displays two sets of coordinates for each black point, one for the actual location in London (on the left) and the equivalent location in Madagascar (on the right). The map is effectively showing two places simultaneously.

Littoral Walk, made in 2006, used walking and mapping in London and was principally conceived to help focus attention on an area of threatened coastal forest in Southern Madagascar which stretches for 70km approximately on either side of Fort Dauphin (Tolagnaro).

I volunteered to work for the charity Azafady who concentrate on protecting this area of coastline through projects which concentrate on alleviation of poverty for people in the region - through health, education and conservation.

In October 2006-January 2007 I spend three months in Southern Madagascar working on projects in rural communities in Madagascar designed to create sustainable livelihoods; establishing water and sanitation infrastructure, education and skills for people in the Antanosy region of South East Madagascar.

This London walk resulted in a 4 colour lithograph in an edition of 100, with all the money riased going to the charity.

This work was part of Node London